Quay
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Quay has been given to 412 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1971, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Quay, 2024
1 in 478,000
Quay over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Quay?
Quay had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 246,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Quay sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Quay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Quays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Quay was born before 1972 — so the typical Quay is around 53 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 15.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 245
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 15.1% of all recorded uses (60).
Is Quay rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1971 (14)
- Years since peak
- 54
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.2% average annual change
Spellings of Quay
Quay is not the most common spelling — Juan is, with 36.4% against Quay's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Quay around the world
Where Quay ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1983–1983#686in 1983
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Quay by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Quay
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Quay
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.